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This very important publication deals with a model of an overhead crane with beam, which is a structure consisting of a platform moving along a straight rail and carrying a beam at the end of which a load is attached. Stabilization of the system is achieved by means of a monotone feedback law taking into account the position and the velocity of the platform. A modelization which yields a hybrid system namely a partial differential equation coupled with dynamic equations at both ends is given. The considered systems are formulated by virtue of abstract evolution equations in Hilbert spaces and their well-posedness is proposed. Main result: The authors prove that strong stabilization occurs without global monotonicity (strong stabilization is achieved with a hypothesis of local monotonicity, which leads to a possibly noncontractive semigroup), thanks to an energy estimate for solutions to a variational nonlinear nonautonomous evolution equation.